April 9, 2015

Thursday, April 9 | 8:30 a.m. | MSU College of Law room 471

Construction Junctions are Infrastructure Planning and Facilities’s monthly public meeting designed to update/inform the public of various projects currently in design, nearing construction and under construction.

Project scope

This project involves a four-story research lab building that is designed to facilitate interdisciplinary research and interaction among all occupants.

The building will be physically connected to the existing Clinical Center C-Wing and Life Science B-Wing, with proximity to the Radiology Building to facilitate the sharing of core research resources.

Substantial completion is scheduled for September 2015, with substantial completion entailing the first two floors of the building. The third and fourth floor will be shelled out, and will be fully constructed as a separate project once the funding is made available.

The building underground utilities have been completed.

The HVAC and sprinkler piping has also been put in place.

Duct work is complete.

The Board of Trustees recently approved build-out of the third and fourth floors.

Impacts

The two east doors on the southeast side are for emergency excess only (directional fencing in place).

The north drive off Service Road will be closed to on-street parking and open to construction traffic and deliveries only.

Increased construction traffic will be occurring in this area as the construction of this building continues.

Timeline

Project details:

Project includes replacing the deteriorating north campus steam tunnels and building service leads.

Increasing the steam distribution mains to the region.

Increasing steam line capacity and converting the condensate return from a vacuum system to a pressure return.

Upgrading the steam service to all buildings in the project area.

Removing the vacuum return system from the north campus substation.

Reconstructing West Circle Drive from the Main Library to the intersection of Auditorium Road in accordance with the campus master plan, providing appropriate vehicular, pedestrian and bicyclist safety improvements.

Impacts

West Circle Drive will be temporally closed from the MSU Library/Hannah Administration entrance to Auditorium Road. There will be limited access (delivery-only for approximately eight weeks) from Beal Street to the MSU Library/Hannah Administration drive.

Temporary detour pamphlets/signs will be distributed/posted shortly.

Local town-hall meetings are being held.

Parking Lot 6 (MSU Museum parking lot) has been reconfigured to meet current parking standards and will result in a loss of eight (total count from 45 to 37) parking spaces.

Parking Lot 11 (Hannah Administration, MSU Library and Olds Hall) has been reconfigured to meet current parking standards and pedestrian safety. The above improvements will result in a loss of 10 (total count from 127 to 117) parking spaces.

This project is centered along West Circle Drive from the MSU Library to the intersection of Auditorium Road.

Impacts

The Kellogg Hotel and conference center’s ability to provide cooling to building will not be affected during this time due to the phasing of the project.

There will be several lane closures on Harrison Road to lift the two current cooling towers off of the roof and to install three new cooling towers. Closures will not occur during athletic events, and will be limited to evenings.

Timeline

Start of construction: November 2014

End of construction: April 2015

*Due to frost laws completion of the last phase may be delayed

Q: Will Kellogg need any grounds restoration as a result of this project

Project updates as of April 9th:

A plan has been developed to build a temporary earth retention wall on top of tunnel lid up to the underside of the slab on grade to allow the backfilling operations to continue. This allows a larger portion of the linac support building to be constructed early, allowing early installation of technical equipment

Continuing installation of radio frequency (rf) shafts on east end of project, as well as waterproofing and backfill

Installing steam and condensate lines in the linac tunnel for temporary heat has begun